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Ground-Glass Opacity in Lung Metastasis from Breast Cancer: A Case Report
- Source :
- Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, 2013.
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Abstract
- A 43-year-old woman with breast cancer who was on neoadjuvant chemotherapy presented with cough, sputum and mild fever. High-resolution computed tomography showed diffuse ground glass opacities in bilateral lungs and subpleural patchy consolidations. Initially, she was thought to have pneumonia or interstitial lung diseases such as drug-induced pneumonitis and treated with antibiotics and steroids. She subsequently got breast cancer surgery because of disease progression, and concurrent thoracoscopic lung biopsy revealed metastatic carcinoma of the lung from breast cancer. The diagnosis of suspected interstitial lung disease can be made without lung biopsy, but malignancy should always be considered and lung biopsy should be performed in the absence of a definitive clinical diagnosis.
- Subjects :
- Diagnostic Imaging
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
Lung
business.industry
Interstitial lung disease
Case Report
Lung biopsy
respiratory system
medicine.disease
Ground-glass opacity
respiratory tract diseases
Metastatic carcinoma
Pneumonia
Infectious Diseases
Breast cancer
medicine.anatomical_structure
medicine
Radiology
Neoplasm Metastasis
medicine.symptom
Lung Diseases, Interstitial
business
Pneumonitis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20056184 and 17383536
- Volume :
- 74
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ab68ac215325ac0118a67dec33fc2071